My latest @nytimes.com oped shows that the White House is dramatically understating the cost of the war in Iran. By my calculations—and I show my work—this war will cost the typical American family thousands, and it could cost them tens of thousands. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2026/05/08/o...

Panic Attack Salad

Abundantly clear today just how many people have never worked in a restaurant. #eightysix #86isnotadeaththreat #8647

Let’s all post it and see if they indict all of us.

When you tweet and don't research first.

No law enforcement officer operating in Connecticut—federal, state, or local—can wear a mask on duty. ICE and CBP agents have to show their faces and badges. And when an officer assaults someone recording them, commits false imprisonment, false arrest, or malicious prosecution, they lose immunity.

Great to see them putting women right at the front of sport …

LAURENCE OLIVIER underwent treatment for cancer during filming, which affected his memory so badly he could barely remember more than one or two lines at a time. Even so, his superb performance earned him an Oscar nomination & won him a Golden Globe. MARATHON MAN (1976)

In February 1777, General George Washington ordered the first mass immunization campaign in American history by mandating that his troops be inoculated against smallpox. He protected the Continental Army from an epidemic that was deadlier than British forces. 249 years later, we have this idiot.

Oklahoma regulators discovered strong signs of oil pollution, including high levels of salt and toxic metals, in one family’s drinking water. But for two years, they repeatedly delayed basic tests to find the culprit — then closed the case. (Published Feb. with @readfrontier.bsky.social)

A traitor to both his party and his country.

We should be learning from other countries...

The effective federal corporate income tax rate: 1950: 50% 1990: 25% 2020: 13% Stop asking "but how we will pay for it?" Restore the corporate tax rate. That is how we will pay for it.

I keep seeing "Ketamine Queen" in headlines. I'm not the only one reading that in Billy Ocean's voice, am I?

Finally watched “The Bone Temple”—how stunning it was. Terrifying, yes, in all the ways a “zombie film” should be, but so beautiful. Give me all the tropes in due measure and well executed, and then give me all the long shots of wildflowers, and cloud shadows on grassy fields, and insects buzzing.

In 1953 Iran had a functioning democracy. A free press. Seven political parties. Women in universities. Women granted voting rights in municipal councils in 1952. A secular prime minister named Mosaddegh who believed Iran's oil belonged to Iran. The US and Britain decided he had to go.

Unhinged

Perhaps the good Congressman should be the first to get a new job. After the midterms, perhaps?

Mark Ruffalo as Columbo

On this Good Friday, we remember Spock died for the needs of the many.

Those are the words of a "potential" war criminal (pushed and encouraged by his "potentially" war criminal president)

CHRISTOPHER WALKEN — 83 Candles 🎂 today — (Macbeth) & CHRISTOPHER LLOYD (Banquo) in the stage production of “Macbeth” at the Lincoln Center - New York in 1974.

UCLA fired me for much, much less. See now, THIS is “celebrating” someone’s death—the factual critiques I posted about open bigot Charlie Kirk were not.

Our president is a sad, pathetic loser…and don’t forget, he’s also a rapist and a pedophile…

James Fallows: “This is the most despicable public statement by an American public official in my lifetime. It needs to be recognized as such.”

That’s a good start.

I had never seen this but searched for it after seeing this thread. I am guessing this is the one, and it did not disappoint. youtu.be/uGzJ8msv6xY?...

Please realize that our biomedical research - like almost every other part of US science - is being demolished. And once you destroy it, you can't snap your fingers and get it back. It's gone. Biomedical research was THE breakthrough area in US science. There were miracles in the pipeline. No more.

Beware the Ides of March.

Sickening racism from a sitting senator. The Ogles hate is contagious. You’re either calling this out or normalizing it. There’s no third option.

Let’s get one thing straight: We are not a Christian nation. We are a nation where you are free to be a Christian. Your religion guides you, not all of us. It’s as simple as that.

The response is….comprehensive.

It’s too easy to go to war

me paying $30 in gas to buy imported things that have been hit with tariffs bc joe rogan is learning about politics at age 58

Our taxes are paying for this instead of healthcare.

Send ICE agents to Iran. They already have the outfits.

> @jimlaporta.bsky.social

Americans rise up against your government.

A+ State of the Union counterprogramming by TCM.

Doing one thing right every few years doesn’t absolve the Roberts court. Especially after Dobbs and immunity.

Happy birthday to this young man, and really to us all

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some of you are looksmaxxing when you need to be booksmaxxing

This Beagle’s dramatic 'play dead' on command is the funniest thing I’ve seen today

"We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both." –Justice Louis Brandeis Words spoken many years ago that are just as relevant today. We must continue the fight to get big money out of politics.

So good

Swalwell: ICE agents shot Alex Pretti and Renee Good. And the only person in the world who has been held accountable by DHS is the pilot who somehow forgot to move Kristi Noem’s blankie.